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Chicago examiner vol vi no 265 a m monday october 26 1908 price one cent Â»?_.__ & c _Â£_Â£ kern primary fraud found at secret hearing after sunday session loesch \ decides to ask for special gra.id jury i policemen are involved i : i third of illegal votes in ninth Â« and nineteenth wards ben efited jake 116 witnesses examined ! sixty-seven men recorded as ! voting swear they did not go to the polls results of yesterday's primary investigation in the ninth ward nearly one-half of all votes were either fraudulently cast or fraudulently counted in the nineteenth ward strong evi dence of police complicity with tha frauds is uncovered -^ jacob j kern democratic candidate for state's attorney la found to have been largely hen nted hy fraudulent voting sixty-seven jewish voters testify that they did not visit the polls on primary day although they are recorded aa hav ing 1 voted a special grand jury will be called to investigate gigantic frauds committed largely in the interests of jacob j kern in the primary election of august 8 this was the decision reached yes terday by special state's attorney frank j loesch after hearing the testimony of 116 registered voters from the ninth and nineteenth wards although the hearing was secret and very effort was made to prevent its results from becoming public mr loesch admitted last night that he and tlis entire corps of assistants had been fcusy all day and that the evidence ad duced had been a distinct surprise to them nearly one-half are fraudulent the testimony thus far received in dicated that nearly one-half of all the votes recorded on the tally sheets of the various precincts of the ninth ward were either fraudulently cast or fraudulently counted a surprising discovery made yester day was that although the investiga tion was originally started by the ac cusations made by state's attorney john j healy in his election contest against john e w wayman the frauds were by no means confined to he republican side of the ticket nearly one-third of those that were revealed yesterday in the two west bide wards were committed by those voting the democratic primary ballot jacob j kern the democratic nominee for state's attorney is shown to have been the principal gainer by these irregu larities and a member of mr loeseh's staff said last night that there seems even more reason to believe that he was un fairly nominated than that wayman so gained the republican nomination decide to ask for special grand jury that the immediate result of this partial investigation will be the calling of a special grand jury was determined last night at a conference between mr i.oeseh and his as sistants while it is not likely that formal application for the calling of the grand jury will be made until a few more wards have been reviewed it is admitted as cer tain that one will be demanded the bold character of the frauds revealed yesterday convinced mr loesch tbat more ! assistance is needed and four more invest â– gators were put to work late yesterday ; more will be selected to-day and tery ef 1 fort will be made to hasten the wor even on the republican side of the prl j mary ballot it is by no means shov r rbsi wayman is the only gainer several of the precincts in the nineteenth vard bowed that men had voted for v.'nyman ! whose votes were never counted consternation was treated in the the wards uuder fire when ihe officers arrived late saturday night with the subpoenaes requiring the appearance of voters befor the state's attorney to-day many of the men most wanted made attempts to escape service but with very few exceptions they i were found later and very few failed to â– appear at the criminal court building yes j terday among those summoned especially from the nineteenth ward were the poli.-e of ficers who were ou duty at the polling places on august 8 several of these will he reported to the grand jury for investi gation on suspicion of having been parties parkhurst resigns as head of new york anti-crime society rumfr of quarrel in organization is denied famous reformer to be given banquet new yoitk oct 25 the hev dr charles park hurst lias resigned the presi dency of the society for the prevention of crime dr parkhurst denied to-night that he was severing his connection with the society on account of any friction that had arisen be tween 1 1 i iii and olher members of the gov erning board but the reason behind his res ignation be refused to reveal the resignation is to take effect thurs day when a banquet will be given at the gotham hotel in the doctor's honor it has been decided to wait until then before making any public statement said dr parkhurst to-night all i will say till theu is that it is quite untrue that there is or has been any lack of harmony between myself and other members of the society we are all per fectly at peace just as we have always been both lu our objects and our methods of obtaining them we have not quarreled because some want to be more blue than i thought wise and expedient nor have we had any division either upon gambling or poli tics but it is true that at the last meet ing of the board i tendered my resigna tion that at first it was refused and that subsequently it was decided to accept it at a dinner to be given to me by the so ciety for that purpose thursday at the gotham hotel the only reason for not making the matter public before was that we wished to make the statement in our own way and that will be done thursday nor would frank lugar treasurer of the society solve the mf-stery i believe said mr lugar that dr parkhurst has been thinking for years of resigning because he had so much other work to do it is not true that there was any scene at our last meeting we were of course very sorry that dr parkhurst resigned but as i said we have long been expecting him to do so so far no one has been suggested as the new presi dent i do not think any of us ever thought of the point near-snow gives Chicago first taste of winter low temperature and southwest wind make dreary sunday the first taste of winter was experienced in Chicago yesterday when a near-snow rain of 03 of an lnc fell while the tem perature varied but four degrees from 43 to 47 degrees in the twenty-four hours the twenty-eight-miles-an-hour wind frocj the southwest where snow and cold blasts have been raging and the mean tempera ture of 45 degrees made the day cold and dreary unsettled conditions prevailed throughout the west with snow in the northwest and rains in the middle west cold temperatures were recorded northwest and north battleford being the lowest with 24 degrees above zero while san francisco and los angeles held the high mark with 82 degrees portions of the western storm may be expected in chi cago tries to poison son then ends his own life offers boy whisky and carbolic acid and drinks himself after vainly trying to induce his sou joseph eighteen years old to drink from a bottle containing whisky and carbolic acid saturday night frank singer 525 west eighteenth street raised the flask to his lips and a few minutes later sank to the floor unconscious the son believing he had taken poison summoned a physi cian but sanger died before his arrival joseph sanger the son told the police his 1 father became angry when he refused to drink and then raised the bottle to his lips and emptied the contents sanger who was a laborer had been despondent for some time having been se^c.^ted from his wife gen a haskell veteranfi of two wars is dead san diego cal oct 25 brigadier general albert haskell u s a retired died in this city to day after a brief illness aged sixty-eight years he had been a resident here for several years when the civil war broke out he enlisted in a new york regiment nnd st one tl ne mmanded a company in be sni ei-.o raiment in which the late president me kinley served in tli : spanish-american war he commanded a battalion of the twelfth in fantry and l<-d the a-t inlt up san luau hill girl mysteriously shot is spirited away from hotel on clew furnished by check police seek wealthy elevator man bullet in woman's head couple disappear after doc tor dresses wound victim called it accident by means of a bauk check drawn on the farmers state bank of llllopolis 111 and bearing the signature of r a king or p a king the police are seeking to solve the mystery surrounding the case of a beautiful young woman who was found suffering from a bullet wound in the head in room si of the imperial hotel 250 state street last saturday evening king who is said formerly to have owned a grain elevator at an Illinois town nnd who is an elderly man with white hair has disappeared from the hotel with the injured young woman and the police have taken up a search for them it is the expressed belief of the police that the woman who was shot is a young woman who formerly lived at springfield she left there five months ago and weut to cleveland and it was afterward staled that she left cleveland and came to chi cago the woman who was shot is de scribed as being a tail beautiful girl of the blonde type about twenty years old registered as man and wife king and the young woman registered at the imperial hotel as man and wife on august 30 last and they continued to live at the hotel until last saturday nght a short time after the mysterious shooting the proprietor of the hotel ralph g nelss declared last night that he knew absolutely nothing about any shooting and a similar statement was made by the night clerk at the hotel the police have learned enough to con vince them that the young woman was shot either accidentally or intentionally tbat the bullet entered the back of her head and that her escape from instant death was little short of miraculous doctors inform police it was dr theodore c koeseel and dr virginia c bergstrom of 131 clark street who first informed the police that a shoot ing had occurred a telephone summons was received by dr koessel at his offices between 5 and 6 o'clock last saturday evening from a man who stated that a woman at the imperial hotel had been in jured in a street car accident dr bergstrom answered tiie call and when she reached the hotel she was shown to room 89 i was admitted to the room by a mau who i afterward learned was mr king said dr bergstrom last night when i entered the room i saw a beautiful young woman tall and blonde holding her hands to the back of her head sehe was evi dently in great pain but she was con scious and entirely rational girl said it was accident neither king nor the young woman said anything after i entered the room so i asked what was the matter to this the young woman replied he was fool ing with a pistol that had a lilank cart ridge iu it and i got it in the neck i then examined the wound and found that a bullet bled entered the base of the skull near the head of the spinal column the hair about the wound was slightly burned and the blood was clotted it ap peared to me that the wound had been in flicted several hours before my arrival i extracted the bullet which to the best of my knowledge was of 32 caliber immediately after i bad extracted the bullet mr king took the missile from ttiy hand put it iu bis pocket and putting his fingers to his lips nodded toward the young woman and left the room up to the time i left the hotel the young woman seemed to be of the opinion that she had been shot by a blauk cartridge paid fee by check when i had finished dressing the wound mr king paid my fee by giving me a check on the farmers state bauk of illi opolis 111 he signed the check p a king as i remember he said that he and the young woman were goiug lo leave the hotel at once but would return ou monday he said that he would pay me cash on that day if i should find that the check was not good the young woman stated that they had uo ready money but declared that the check was good wheu i returned to our offices i gave the check to dr koessel and we notified the police j dr koessel who now has the bank j heck iu his possession stated last night ; that in his opinion the signature to the i check is it a king not p a klug as dr bergstrom supposed lieutenant of detectives john sullivan ! stated that he had visited the imperial i hotel last saturday night soon after the i report of dr koessel and dr â€¢ bergstrom i was received but had been unable to get any information concerning the shooting i he was told he said by the hotel people that a woman named mrs wawkowsfij had i been injured by a street car anil that a i physician hud been called to attend her i it was denied that any woman bad beeu shot several other guests at the hotel stated 1.-iil night that king on leaving the hotel last saturday night bad said that be and the woman who was registered as mrs king were going to cleveland the night le-rk at the hotel said he had seeu king's â– ompanlon as late as i o'clock last satur u evening and at that time he did not notice tbat she had been shot i dr koessel says he understands the onpte had returned to the hotel oniv a hort time before dr bergstrom visited the i woman and that before that time they [ bad been out of the hotel and had vainly [ iougb_^^^each another physician this m that the shooting may ( __| ___>'-" ' tn the hotel babbling girl of gopper fame is Chicago divorcee mrs friend whose gossip broke heinze 65,000,000 corner defendant in suit beauty spoiled romance husband obtained decree on charge of desertion on . july 24 dlspalches from new york yesterday an nounced that the babbling girl who pre cipitated the 6.1.000,000 heinze failure which in turn brought on the panic of last fall was divorced in Chicago re cently and search of the records proved the reports correct the babbling girl was mrs otis c friend who lived at the Chicago beach hotel from the time of her marriage january g 1906 until she separated from her husband september 15 of that year and weut to new york being a striking beauty of twenty-eight or thereabouts young enough to be fascin ating and old enough to be really interest ing she soon surrounded herself with a circle of friends there including some of the most influential men in wall street she made her iwme near the waldorf-as toria nnd frequently went to the big hotel for afternoon tea in company with her young women acquaintances heinze drops 65,000,000 secret the waldorf was the headquarters of the copper plotters and mrs friend's com panions knew most of run ail the wall stret magnates were s.ruc with the beauty of the Chicago woman and sought introduc tions to her f augustus heinze vas among them in the course of conversation mr heinze is said to have talked shop before he knew it he had confided to uer the secret of the contemplated copper corner a 60,000,000 secret dropped casual ly over a cup of tea next day mrs friend imparted the se cret over another cup of tea to a pair of her women friends and they told it to their friends until eventually it got around to h h rogers tea table a tremendous lot of copper stock was dumped on the market and the price fell from g0 to 10 the heinze crowd was ruined the country was plunged into a disastrous financial depression and mrs friend has won a place in history as the babbling girl her former husband is a wealthy club man and a member of the milwaukee auto mobile firm of browne friend & co he met the babbling girl at her home in dubuque la whiie on a business trip and like every other man who looked at her was fascinated by her beauty and conversational powers she was then miss magdaline m von lomme jealousy breaks up romance there was a romantic courtship and then the marriage at dubuque january 13 1000 mr friend brought his bride to Chicago where she was immediately surrouuded by admirers instead of repelling them she encouraged them to such an extent that her husband quarreled with her the first suit was filed april 11 1908 and made the statutory charge against mrs friend charles troy was one of several co-respondents mentioned the bill reeltej tbat three months after the marriage mrs friend ran away with a man telling her husband tbat she was going to visit friends in kentucky for some reason this suit was never pressed although it is still on the books of the circuit court a second bill charging desertion was filed by mr friend july 22 1!x>8 and mrs friend came to Chicago im mediately and agreed not to contest the desertion suit if ber husband would drop the other one he agreed judge samuel u stough signed the decree on july 24 says Chicago saloons have produced savages dexter col oct 25 seaborn wright of georgle to-night divided honors with judge ben b lindsey of denver in ad dressing a w c t v mass meeting of 3.<x)o in a sensational address he de clared that the 8,000 saloons of Chicago bail produced a race of savages with which that city was unable to cope to day last year he said the revenue from these saloons was 1(k>.ooim>00 r'ouiie!;'il upon the saloon is the gambling eiuv'.h'-s of Chicago which produced last year 5111.000.000 for its promoters last year the capitalization of the virtue uf womanhood brought a gross income of f-j.ooo.ooo father's leg broken in wrestling with his son a friendly wrestling match betweeu father and son at a party last evening re sulted in a broken leg for peter johnson who now is at the county hospital john sou was wrestling with his son peter jr at their borne 315 west ohio street when both went to the floor johnson's right leg was broken above the ankle alleged Chicago defaulter diagram of his long flight from justice leiter and bride return incognito as mr and mrs adlum they have clash with customs officers new york oct 25 joseph letter the millionaire Chicago grain plunger returned from europe to-night with his bride of four months traveling under the assumed name of mr and mrs arthur adlum he got into a queer clash with the cus toms officials a few minutes after he landed mrs lelter who apparently was ignorant of the customs laws protested against having her jewels inspected and her hus band vigorously bucked her up the cus toms people won however as usual mr and mrs adlum leaving a valet in charge of their dozen trunks had start ed to walk through the hues on their way to leave the dock the young woman was carrying a leather bag iu ber hand pardon me but there's no government stamp on that bag a watebman politeiy reminded her we're not smuggling anything the young man retorted hotly all our trunks are there for examination we merely wish to get away quickly i'm borry the watchman said but you cannot pass until that bag is inspect ed mr adlum protested strongly but in the end had to give in the bag contained a large and valuable collection of jewels which his bride had takcri^out of ihe coun try with her and which of course were n,ot dutiable after the inspection of the bag was com pleted the young husband accompanied his bride to an automobile kissed her and returned to instruct the valet wbnt to do with the big bunch of trunks returning to the motor almost immediately the ex amination of the trunks took several hours why the loiters adopted a name other than their own is a mystery their incog nito did not avail thein much as everybody on the hamburg-american liner amerika recognized them before they were a day out and addressed them as mr and mrs lelter this isn't exactly what you'd call a honeymoon trip now the grain plunger said we've been married four mouths and are returning to america to settle down letter's bride was miss juliette williams and they mere married lust june iu wash ington mr lelter bm_jt-t denied that is fat>er-in-law had placed any restrictions upon his speculating before allowing him to iii the young woman mr^^^mrs lelter took the lirst train for mm rich widow must tell morse deals mrs gelshenen-braker called as witness against former ice king xew york oct 20.-mrs catherine gelshenen-braker the multimillionaire widow of the former president of the gar field xational bank has been served with a subpoena it was learned to-night to testify against charles w morse the former ice king now on trial iu the united states court for alleged violatiou of the banking laws the secret service men intrusted with the service of the document found the wealthy widow iu her home in west end long branch she was highly indignant at being subpoenaed apparently she bad believed that with the closing of the dodge-morse divorce proceedings and the subsequent conviction of the notorious lawyer abe hummel for subornation of perjury in connection with it the annoy ances to which she had been subjected by reason of the association of ber name with morse had beeu euded while those proceedings were being con ducted she had several unpleasant experi ences with process servers for days she had hid in bet magnlncent home in fifth avenue while they stood guard outside ready to serve the papers ou her the moment she crossed the threshold fled lo europe by her womau's wit however she event ually foiled them and escaped oue night to the steamship deutschland on board which she crossed the atlantic her flight proved in vain for when she returned some months later jerome's men found her and she gave testimony before the grand jury of the county at the time mrs gelsheuett jj she was known then made her hnmsd de parture from this city it was reported that she was going to i'aris where morse was sojourning to be wedded to him as soon as his marriage to ills present wife which be believed at that time was illegal had been annulled mrs gelsheneu emphatically denied those reports and declared that she had no in tention of being married to mr morse or to anyone else you must kno-.v she said that my relations with mr morse have been pureiy business ones he was the partner of my husband in some business ventures and since uiy husband's death he had advised me about my business affairs whenever i needed advice will testify concerning deals it is iu connection with this advice which apparently led her to speculate un der morse's direction in stocks of the american lee trust that she is needed now bv the i'sited states government to give testimony at morse's trial at the begin ning of * the proceedings which are now pending in the federal court here mrs oelshenen-braker's name was mentioned and chee-ks drawn by morse in her favor on the xational bank of north america were offered b.v the district attorney in evi dence these che.-ks showeel that morse had made many thousands of dollars for mrs gelsheuen in ice stock gambling hopkins to be rushed back fob speedy trial lawyer expects to clear him of fraudulent use of the mails eludes police 7 months chicagoan tours united states and visits cuba before ar rest in seattle woman foils detectives mrs florence cooper though shadowed joins broker in his travels for nearly seven months wallace h i hopkins the broker who is accused of defaulting with 200,000 played hide-and seek with the police and secret service men across the united states and into cuba and back again hut became too confident and his arrest followed satur day night in seattle wash told iu the examiner yesterday morning he will be brought back to Chicago and tried on indictments returned by the fed eral grand jury charging him with using the malls for fraudulent purposes for a month after hopkins disappear ance with florence cooper he bobbed up at widely separated points several timfj *" arrests were made of suspects who wer4 unfortunate enough to bear a resemblance to him lawyer tells of journey all this time hopkins kept in rommunl cation with his attorney franc har per who is authority for the following ac count of his client's motem-nts from the time he left Chicago e ly n april from Chicago he wen to a small town near xew york city remaining there two or three weeks florence cooper was with him but returned to Chicago in about ten days hopkins had only about 500 instead of 200,000 as his creditors claimed while mrs cooper was in Chicago shf lived in the apartments she formerly occu [ pied with hopkins at 2505 michigan ave nue where she was known under her maiden name of florence ward captain i p d o'brien of the detective department ' detailed two men to watch her move ments and there was constantly a secret service man or two close at hand mrs cooper soon retuamed to hopkins meeting him in new york city the police deportment and secret sere Â» ice men in new york were notified of th i time of her expected arrival but were an hour late and never found her again hop ! kins was in new york long enough to be , arrested in a dive when the house was , pulled he was taken to the police sta [ tion locked up haled before a police , magistrate fined 10 which he paid and turned loose again the fact that his ! photograph had been scrutinized by every , member of the xew york police depart ment apparently did not jeopardise his : freedom c meets misfortune in havana . with mrs oooper hopkins went t i cuba he lived ta havana for about a ! month one night the house he was is â– burned down and he lost everything he ' had includii what money he had left 'â– and all his tiling with the exception of his pajan mrs cooper was in the â– same plight n american neighbor sup â€¢ plied the coup -. whom he supposed to be 1 man and wife with clothing ' hopkins borrowed enough money to go 1 to , new york where friends supplied his ! immediate wants he remained in new york city for two weeks living at the home of a friend he left new york for seattle stopping in Chicago for three days mrs cooper remained with him until about three weeks ago when she returned to i Chicago and went to live on the north i side when she left hopkins he was j without money but was interested la . several mining propositions mrs lavina hopkins the wife of the !_ -, dieted broker is now in milwaukee she was forced to sell her jewelry and fur 1 nlture and her daughter ida mae had to ? leave northwestern academy when hop 3 kins went away leaving nothing for thetr ' support mrs hopkins said when in chi cago that she contemplated bringing action ' for divorce , lcroy cooper of little rapids mich the husband of mrs cooper has already i brought suit for divorce naming hopkins â€¢ as corespondent i hopkius was president of the wallace h f hopkins company mining stock brokers 181 lnsalle street after his disappear ance the company went into the hands of a receiver edwin c day taking charge . left 23 cents in safe when hopkins left the affairs of the company were iu such a condition that the ; assets amounted to practically nothing only 23 cents cash-ou-hand was found la the safe besides the federal indictments agatest hopkins there is also a state warrant charging embezzlement thomas j delahuut secretary of tbs company was indicted on tha a continued on 2d page 4th column ii weather forecast ft $ Chicago and vicinity partiy a w cloudy monday and tuesday with xlvj probably light showers continued f_s \\ cool variable winds h 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Chicago examiner vol vi no 265 a m monday october 26 1908 price one cent Â»?_.__ & c _Â£_Â£ kern primary fraud found at secret hearing after sunday session loesch \ decides to ask for special gra.id jury i policemen are involved i : i third of illegal votes in ninth Â« and nineteenth wards ben efited jake 116 witnesses examined ! sixty-seven men recorded as ! voting swear they did not go to the polls results of yesterday's primary investigation in the ninth ward nearly one-half of all votes were either fraudulently cast or fraudulently counted in the nineteenth ward strong evi dence of police complicity with tha frauds is uncovered -^ jacob j kern democratic candidate for state's attorney la found to have been largely hen nted hy fraudulent voting sixty-seven jewish voters testify that they did not visit the polls on primary day although they are recorded aa hav ing 1 voted a special grand jury will be called to investigate gigantic frauds committed largely in the interests of jacob j kern in the primary election of august 8 this was the decision reached yes terday by special state's attorney frank j loesch after hearing the testimony of 116 registered voters from the ninth and nineteenth wards although the hearing was secret and very effort was made to prevent its results from becoming public mr loesch admitted last night that he and tlis entire corps of assistants had been fcusy all day and that the evidence ad duced had been a distinct surprise to them nearly one-half are fraudulent the testimony thus far received in dicated that nearly one-half of all the votes recorded on the tally sheets of the various precincts of the ninth ward were either fraudulently cast or fraudulently counted a surprising discovery made yester day was that although the investiga tion was originally started by the ac cusations made by state's attorney john j healy in his election contest against john e w wayman the frauds were by no means confined to he republican side of the ticket nearly one-third of those that were revealed yesterday in the two west bide wards were committed by those voting the democratic primary ballot jacob j kern the democratic nominee for state's attorney is shown to have been the principal gainer by these irregu larities and a member of mr loeseh's staff said last night that there seems even more reason to believe that he was un fairly nominated than that wayman so gained the republican nomination decide to ask for special grand jury that the immediate result of this partial investigation will be the calling of a special grand jury was determined last night at a conference between mr i.oeseh and his as sistants while it is not likely that formal application for the calling of the grand jury will be made until a few more wards have been reviewed it is admitted as cer tain that one will be demanded the bold character of the frauds revealed yesterday convinced mr loesch tbat more ! assistance is needed and four more invest â– gators were put to work late yesterday ; more will be selected to-day and tery ef 1 fort will be made to hasten the wor even on the republican side of the prl j mary ballot it is by no means shov r rbsi wayman is the only gainer several of the precincts in the nineteenth vard bowed that men had voted for v.'nyman ! whose votes were never counted consternation was treated in the the wards uuder fire when ihe officers arrived late saturday night with the subpoenaes requiring the appearance of voters befor the state's attorney to-day many of the men most wanted made attempts to escape service but with very few exceptions they i were found later and very few failed to â– appear at the criminal court building yes j terday among those summoned especially from the nineteenth ward were the poli.-e of ficers who were ou duty at the polling places on august 8 several of these will he reported to the grand jury for investi gation on suspicion of having been parties parkhurst resigns as head of new york anti-crime society rumfr of quarrel in organization is denied famous reformer to be given banquet new yoitk oct 25 the hev dr charles park hurst lias resigned the presi dency of the society for the prevention of crime dr parkhurst denied to-night that he was severing his connection with the society on account of any friction that had arisen be tween 1 1 i iii and olher members of the gov erning board but the reason behind his res ignation be refused to reveal the resignation is to take effect thurs day when a banquet will be given at the gotham hotel in the doctor's honor it has been decided to wait until then before making any public statement said dr parkhurst to-night all i will say till theu is that it is quite untrue that there is or has been any lack of harmony between myself and other members of the society we are all per fectly at peace just as we have always been both lu our objects and our methods of obtaining them we have not quarreled because some want to be more blue than i thought wise and expedient nor have we had any division either upon gambling or poli tics but it is true that at the last meet ing of the board i tendered my resigna tion that at first it was refused and that subsequently it was decided to accept it at a dinner to be given to me by the so ciety for that purpose thursday at the gotham hotel the only reason for not making the matter public before was that we wished to make the statement in our own way and that will be done thursday nor would frank lugar treasurer of the society solve the mf-stery i believe said mr lugar that dr parkhurst has been thinking for years of resigning because he had so much other work to do it is not true that there was any scene at our last meeting we were of course very sorry that dr parkhurst resigned but as i said we have long been expecting him to do so so far no one has been suggested as the new presi dent i do not think any of us ever thought of the point near-snow gives Chicago first taste of winter low temperature and southwest wind make dreary sunday the first taste of winter was experienced in Chicago yesterday when a near-snow rain of 03 of an lnc fell while the tem perature varied but four degrees from 43 to 47 degrees in the twenty-four hours the twenty-eight-miles-an-hour wind frocj the southwest where snow and cold blasts have been raging and the mean tempera ture of 45 degrees made the day cold and dreary unsettled conditions prevailed throughout the west with snow in the northwest and rains in the middle west cold temperatures were recorded northwest and north battleford being the lowest with 24 degrees above zero while san francisco and los angeles held the high mark with 82 degrees portions of the western storm may be expected in chi cago tries to poison son then ends his own life offers boy whisky and carbolic acid and drinks himself after vainly trying to induce his sou joseph eighteen years old to drink from a bottle containing whisky and carbolic acid saturday night frank singer 525 west eighteenth street raised the flask to his lips and a few minutes later sank to the floor unconscious the son believing he had taken poison summoned a physi cian but sanger died before his arrival joseph sanger the son told the police his 1 father became angry when he refused to drink and then raised the bottle to his lips and emptied the contents sanger who was a laborer had been despondent for some time having been se^c.^ted from his wife gen a haskell veteranfi of two wars is dead san diego cal oct 25 brigadier general albert haskell u s a retired died in this city to day after a brief illness aged sixty-eight years he had been a resident here for several years when the civil war broke out he enlisted in a new york regiment nnd st one tl ne mmanded a company in be sni ei-.o raiment in which the late president me kinley served in tli : spanish-american war he commanded a battalion of the twelfth in fantry and l'-" ' tn the hotel babbling girl of gopper fame is Chicago divorcee mrs friend whose gossip broke heinze 65,000,000 corner defendant in suit beauty spoiled romance husband obtained decree on charge of desertion on . july 24 dlspalches from new york yesterday an nounced that the babbling girl who pre cipitated the 6.1.000,000 heinze failure which in turn brought on the panic of last fall was divorced in Chicago re cently and search of the records proved the reports correct the babbling girl was mrs otis c friend who lived at the Chicago beach hotel from the time of her marriage january g 1906 until she separated from her husband september 15 of that year and weut to new york being a striking beauty of twenty-eight or thereabouts young enough to be fascin ating and old enough to be really interest ing she soon surrounded herself with a circle of friends there including some of the most influential men in wall street she made her iwme near the waldorf-as toria nnd frequently went to the big hotel for afternoon tea in company with her young women acquaintances heinze drops 65,000,000 secret the waldorf was the headquarters of the copper plotters and mrs friend's com panions knew most of run ail the wall stret magnates were s.ruc with the beauty of the Chicago woman and sought introduc tions to her f augustus heinze vas among them in the course of conversation mr heinze is said to have talked shop before he knew it he had confided to uer the secret of the contemplated copper corner a 60,000,000 secret dropped casual ly over a cup of tea next day mrs friend imparted the se cret over another cup of tea to a pair of her women friends and they told it to their friends until eventually it got around to h h rogers tea table a tremendous lot of copper stock was dumped on the market and the price fell from g0 to 10 the heinze crowd was ruined the country was plunged into a disastrous financial depression and mrs friend has won a place in history as the babbling girl her former husband is a wealthy club man and a member of the milwaukee auto mobile firm of browne friend & co he met the babbling girl at her home in dubuque la whiie on a business trip and like every other man who looked at her was fascinated by her beauty and conversational powers she was then miss magdaline m von lomme jealousy breaks up romance there was a romantic courtship and then the marriage at dubuque january 13 1000 mr friend brought his bride to Chicago where she was immediately surrouuded by admirers instead of repelling them she encouraged them to such an extent that her husband quarreled with her the first suit was filed april 11 1908 and made the statutory charge against mrs friend charles troy was one of several co-respondents mentioned the bill reeltej tbat three months after the marriage mrs friend ran away with a man telling her husband tbat she was going to visit friends in kentucky for some reason this suit was never pressed although it is still on the books of the circuit court a second bill charging desertion was filed by mr friend july 22 1!x>8 and mrs friend came to Chicago im mediately and agreed not to contest the desertion suit if ber husband would drop the other one he agreed judge samuel u stough signed the decree on july 24 says Chicago saloons have produced savages dexter col oct 25 seaborn wright of georgle to-night divided honors with judge ben b lindsey of denver in ad dressing a w c t v mass meeting of 3..ooim>00 r'ouiie!;'il upon the saloon is the gambling eiuv'.h'-s of Chicago which produced last year 5111.000.000 for its promoters last year the capitalization of the virtue uf womanhood brought a gross income of f-j.ooo.ooo father's leg broken in wrestling with his son a friendly wrestling match betweeu father and son at a party last evening re sulted in a broken leg for peter johnson who now is at the county hospital john sou was wrestling with his son peter jr at their borne 315 west ohio street when both went to the floor johnson's right leg was broken above the ankle alleged Chicago defaulter diagram of his long flight from justice leiter and bride return incognito as mr and mrs adlum they have clash with customs officers new york oct 25 joseph letter the millionaire Chicago grain plunger returned from europe to-night with his bride of four months traveling under the assumed name of mr and mrs arthur adlum he got into a queer clash with the cus toms officials a few minutes after he landed mrs lelter who apparently was ignorant of the customs laws protested against having her jewels inspected and her hus band vigorously bucked her up the cus toms people won however as usual mr and mrs adlum leaving a valet in charge of their dozen trunks had start ed to walk through the hues on their way to leave the dock the young woman was carrying a leather bag iu ber hand pardon me but there's no government stamp on that bag a watebman politeiy reminded her we're not smuggling anything the young man retorted hotly all our trunks are there for examination we merely wish to get away quickly i'm borry the watchman said but you cannot pass until that bag is inspect ed mr adlum protested strongly but in the end had to give in the bag contained a large and valuable collection of jewels which his bride had takcri^out of ihe coun try with her and which of course were n,ot dutiable after the inspection of the bag was com pleted the young husband accompanied his bride to an automobile kissed her and returned to instruct the valet wbnt to do with the big bunch of trunks returning to the motor almost immediately the ex amination of the trunks took several hours why the loiters adopted a name other than their own is a mystery their incog nito did not avail thein much as everybody on the hamburg-american liner amerika recognized them before they were a day out and addressed them as mr and mrs lelter this isn't exactly what you'd call a honeymoon trip now the grain plunger said we've been married four mouths and are returning to america to settle down letter's bride was miss juliette williams and they mere married lust june iu wash ington mr lelter bm_jt-t denied that is fat>er-in-law had placed any restrictions upon his speculating before allowing him to iii the young woman mr^^^mrs lelter took the lirst train for mm rich widow must tell morse deals mrs gelshenen-braker called as witness against former ice king xew york oct 20.-mrs catherine gelshenen-braker the multimillionaire widow of the former president of the gar field xational bank has been served with a subpoena it was learned to-night to testify against charles w morse the former ice king now on trial iu the united states court for alleged violatiou of the banking laws the secret service men intrusted with the service of the document found the wealthy widow iu her home in west end long branch she was highly indignant at being subpoenaed apparently she bad believed that with the closing of the dodge-morse divorce proceedings and the subsequent conviction of the notorious lawyer abe hummel for subornation of perjury in connection with it the annoy ances to which she had been subjected by reason of the association of ber name with morse had beeu euded while those proceedings were being con ducted she had several unpleasant experi ences with process servers for days she had hid in bet magnlncent home in fifth avenue while they stood guard outside ready to serve the papers ou her the moment she crossed the threshold fled lo europe by her womau's wit however she event ually foiled them and escaped oue night to the steamship deutschland on board which she crossed the atlantic her flight proved in vain for when she returned some months later jerome's men found her and she gave testimony before the grand jury of the county at the time mrs gelsheuett jj she was known then made her hnmsd de parture from this city it was reported that she was going to i'aris where morse was sojourning to be wedded to him as soon as his marriage to ills present wife which be believed at that time was illegal had been annulled mrs gelsheneu emphatically denied those reports and declared that she had no in tention of being married to mr morse or to anyone else you must kno-.v she said that my relations with mr morse have been pureiy business ones he was the partner of my husband in some business ventures and since uiy husband's death he had advised me about my business affairs whenever i needed advice will testify concerning deals it is iu connection with this advice which apparently led her to speculate un der morse's direction in stocks of the american lee trust that she is needed now bv the i'sited states government to give testimony at morse's trial at the begin ning of * the proceedings which are now pending in the federal court here mrs oelshenen-braker's name was mentioned and chee-ks drawn by morse in her favor on the xational bank of north america were offered b.v the district attorney in evi dence these che.-ks showeel that morse had made many thousands of dollars for mrs gelsheuen in ice stock gambling hopkins to be rushed back fob speedy trial lawyer expects to clear him of fraudulent use of the mails eludes police 7 months chicagoan tours united states and visits cuba before ar rest in seattle woman foils detectives mrs florence cooper though shadowed joins broker in his travels for nearly seven months wallace h i hopkins the broker who is accused of defaulting with 200,000 played hide-and seek with the police and secret service men across the united states and into cuba and back again hut became too confident and his arrest followed satur day night in seattle wash told iu the examiner yesterday morning he will be brought back to Chicago and tried on indictments returned by the fed eral grand jury charging him with using the malls for fraudulent purposes for a month after hopkins disappear ance with florence cooper he bobbed up at widely separated points several timfj *" arrests were made of suspects who wer4 unfortunate enough to bear a resemblance to him lawyer tells of journey all this time hopkins kept in rommunl cation with his attorney franc har per who is authority for the following ac count of his client's motem-nts from the time he left Chicago e ly n april from Chicago he wen to a small town near xew york city remaining there two or three weeks florence cooper was with him but returned to Chicago in about ten days hopkins had only about 500 instead of 200,000 as his creditors claimed while mrs cooper was in Chicago shf lived in the apartments she formerly occu [ pied with hopkins at 2505 michigan ave nue where she was known under her maiden name of florence ward captain i p d o'brien of the detective department ' detailed two men to watch her move ments and there was constantly a secret service man or two close at hand mrs cooper soon retuamed to hopkins meeting him in new york city the police deportment and secret sere Â» ice men in new york were notified of th i time of her expected arrival but were an hour late and never found her again hop ! kins was in new york long enough to be , arrested in a dive when the house was , pulled he was taken to the police sta [ tion locked up haled before a police , magistrate fined 10 which he paid and turned loose again the fact that his ! photograph had been scrutinized by every , member of the xew york police depart ment apparently did not jeopardise his : freedom c meets misfortune in havana . with mrs oooper hopkins went t i cuba he lived ta havana for about a ! month one night the house he was is â– burned down and he lost everything he ' had includii what money he had left 'â– and all his tiling with the exception of his pajan mrs cooper was in the â– same plight n american neighbor sup â€¢ plied the coup -. whom he supposed to be 1 man and wife with clothing ' hopkins borrowed enough money to go 1 to , new york where friends supplied his ! immediate wants he remained in new york city for two weeks living at the home of a friend he left new york for seattle stopping in Chicago for three days mrs cooper remained with him until about three weeks ago when she returned to i Chicago and went to live on the north i side when she left hopkins he was j without money but was interested la . several mining propositions mrs lavina hopkins the wife of the !_ -, dieted broker is now in milwaukee she was forced to sell her jewelry and fur 1 nlture and her daughter ida mae had to ? leave northwestern academy when hop 3 kins went away leaving nothing for thetr ' support mrs hopkins said when in chi cago that she contemplated bringing action ' for divorce , lcroy cooper of little rapids mich the husband of mrs cooper has already i brought suit for divorce naming hopkins â€¢ as corespondent i hopkius was president of the wallace h f hopkins company mining stock brokers 181 lnsalle street after his disappear ance the company went into the hands of a receiver edwin c day taking charge . left 23 cents in safe when hopkins left the affairs of the 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